Ruining Hu*, Nannan Wu*, Tong Liu*, Liuting Zou, Songjie Lv, Xiao Huang#, Rongfeng K. Hu#. (2024) Tachykinin1-expressing neurons in the parasubthalamic nucleus control active avoidance learning. eLife (in press)
Meng Zhang*, Guohua Chen*, Rongfeng K. Hu#. (2024) How is helping behavior regulated in the brain? Trends in Cognitive Sciences 28(4), 281-283
Xinqi Lu, Rongfeng K. Hu#. (2023) Mapping brain circuits for murine maternal behavior triggered by pup calls. Trends in Neurosciences (in press).
Ruining Hu, Rongfeng K. Hu#. (2022) Sensation of pleasant touch: from molecules to circuits and behaviours. Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy 7:3187-3189.
Rongfeng K. Hu, Patrick B. Chen, André Berndt, David J. Anderson, Weizhe Hong. (2022) Improved Version of ChETA Promotes Aggression in the Medial Amygdala. BioRxiv.
RK Hu, Y. Zuo, T. Ly, J. Wang, P. Meera, YE Wu, W. Hong. (2021). An amygdala-to-hypothalamus circuit for social reward. Nature neuroscience. (Highlighted by Nature Neuroscience)
EW Wu, J. Dang, L. Kingsbury, MM Zhang, FS Sun, RK Hu, W. Hong. (2021). Neural control of affiliative touch in prosocial interaction. Nature (online).
L. Kingsbury, S. Huang, T. Raam, L. Cheng, D. Wei, RK Hu, W. Hong (2020). Cortical representations of conspecific sex shape social behavior. Neuron. 107(5), 941-953.
PB Chen*, RK Hu*, YE Wu*, L. Pan, S. Huang, PE Micevych, and W. Hong. (2019). Sexually Dimorphic Control of Parenting Behavior by the Medial Amygdala. Cell, 176 (5), 1206-1221. (* co-first authors; Highlighted by Nature Reviews Neuroscience | UCLA News)
R. Hu, J. Zhang, M. Luo, and J. Hu. (2017). Response Patterns of GABAergic Neurons in the Anterior Piriform Cortex of Awake Mice. Cerebral Cortex, 27 (6), 3110-3124.
R. Hu, S. Jin, X. He, F. Xu, and J. Hu. (2016). Whole-Brain Monosynaptic Afferent Inputs to Basal Forebrain Cholinergic System. Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 10: 98.